In its latest Top 100 AI list, Andreessen Horowitz tracks actual US consumer spending for the first time. Nearly half of US consumers use AI but only 4.5% pay for a subscription, and the top 1% of payers spend about $900 a month, mostly on professional tools.
AI adoption is pushing the legal profession to rethink the billable hour. It is also changing how lawyers build expertise.
Apple has disclosed a deal to hire the team of Huxe, a personalized podcast startup, and license its technology. TechCrunch asks whether Apple is looking at AI-generated podcasts.
As AI takes on more routine work, professional services firms are shifting their value toward human judgment and trusted outcomes. They are redesigning how they structure projects, manage knowledge and measure success.
As companies move beyond experiments, running AI agents across existing data, applications and infrastructure raises questions of access, oversight and control. These issues will shape IBM's TechXchange 2026 conference in Atlanta on Oct. 26–29.
TypeSafe, maker of the Jev AI model, is valued at $7.5 billion only weeks after launch. The company claims Jev runs much faster and uses far fewer tokens than large language models.